What Is Luck Quotes

Good luck is what is left over after intelligence and effort have combined at their best. Luck is the residue of design.

Lessons that come easy are not lessons at all. They are gracious acts of luck. Yet lessons learned the hard way are lessons never forgotten.

In my day it was 75 percent car and mechanic, 25 percent driver and luck. Today it's 95 percent car.

Everyone gets lucky once in a while, but no one is consistently lucky.

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.

You have to create your own luck. You have to be aware of the opportunities around you and take advantage of them.

I was convinced that luck was a matter of knowing what one wanted and then being willing to work to make the wish come true.

People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.

If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.

Accumulating love brings luck, accumulating hatred brings calamity.

Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.

A shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.

Animation should be an art…what you fellows have done with it, making it into a trade…not an art, but a trade…bad luck.

Here is part of the tradeoff with diversification. You must be diversified enough to survive bad times or bad luck so that skill and good process can have the chance to pay off over the long term.

Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.

You're out of luck like two dogs stuck.

Health is not luck. We have an innate ability to maintain good health if we establish the optimal environment for healing.

The truth is that, no matter what kind of game you find yourself in, no matter how good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love

There is no luck in life, everything happens for a reason. Every little thing that you do... leads up to a bigger thing. And that's the story of my life.

Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.

Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!

Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.

Only bad golfers are lucky. They're the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the ball straight, a funny bounce is bound to be unlucky.

I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.

That we arrived at fifty years together is due as much to luck as to love, and a talent for knowing, when we stumble, where to fall, and how to get up again.

I promise you, a lot of it is luck. But you make your own luck by working really hard and trying lots and lots of things.

what you don't know, you don't miss

You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heatwaves.

Of course it's all luck.

Shallow men believe in luck.

Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life.

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.

There's a Grand Designer behind everything. Your life is not a result of random chance, fate, or luck. There is a master plan. History is His story. God is pulling the strings.

I wondered if sometimes the difference between a psychopath in Broadmoor and a psychopath on Wall Street was the luck of being born into a stable, rich family.

You need a lot of luck to find people with whom you want to spend the rest of your life. Some people manage to find their soul mate. Others don't. I think love is like a lottery.

What luck for rulers that men do not think.

I might have to wait. I'll never give up. I guess it's half timing, and the other half's luck. Wherever you are, whenever it's right, you'll come out of nowhere and into my life.

Good music always defeats bad luck

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

We can't repay our good luck with bad grace. It invites darkness.

Call it fate, destiny, call it luck you ended up with me But some things are meant to be Coincidence, circumstance Or something bigger thats just out of our hands But some things are meant to be

Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise.

I do not know anything about luck, apart from that the more I practice, the luckier I get.

Don't confuse luck with skill when judging others, and especially when judging yourself.